The Tinkerer's Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself
by J. Scott Turner
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages282 pages
ISBN
9780674023536
Published
2007
Description
Most people, when they contemplate the living world, conclude that it is a designed place. So it is jarring when biologists come along and say this is all wrong. What most people see as design, they say--purposeful, dire...Most people, when they contemplate the living world, conclude that it is a designed place. So it is jarring when biologists come along and say this is all wrong. What most people see as design, they say--purposeful, directed, even intelligent--is only an illusion, something cooked up in a mind that is eager to see purpose where none exists.